British Academy Film Award for Best Film Not in the English Language
British Academy Film Awards · 198 nominations across 43 ceremonies · 43 wins
79th BAFTA Film Awards · 2026
- Winner Sentimental Value · Joachim Trier, Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
- Nominee The Secret Agent · Kleber Mendonça Filho, Emilie Lesclaux
- Nominee It Was Just an Accident · Jafar Panahi
- Nominee The Voice of Hind Rajab · Kaouther Ben Hania, Nadim Cheikhrouha
- Nominee Sirāt · Oliver Laxe
78th BAFTA Film Awards · 2025
- Winner Emilia Pérez · Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux
- Nominee The Seed of the Sacred Fig · Mohammad Rasoulof
- Nominee All We Imagine as Light · Payal Kapadia
- Nominee I'm Still Here · Walter Salles, Rodrigo Teixeira
- Nominee Kneecap · Rich Peppiatt
77th BAFTA Film Awards · 2024
- Winner The Zone of Interest
- Nominee 20 Days in Mariupol
- Nominee Society of the Snow · J. A. Bayona, Sandra Hermida
- Nominee Anatomy of a Fall · Justine Triet, Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion
- Nominee Past Lives · Celine Song, David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon
76th BAFTA Film Awards · 2023
- Winner All Quiet on the Western Front · Edward Berger, Malte Grunert
- Nominee Decision to Leave · Park Chan-wook
- Nominee Argentina, 1985 · Santiago Mitre, Victoria Alonso
- Nominee Corsage · Marie Kreutzer
- Nominee The Quiet Girl · Colm Bairéad, Cleona Ní Chrualaoí
75th BAFTA Film Awards · 2022
- Winner Drive My Car · Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- Nominee The Worst Person in the World · Joachim Trier, Thomas Robsahm
- Nominee The Hand of God · Paolo Sorrentino, Lorenzo Mieli
- Nominee Petite Maman · Céline Sciamma, Bénédicte Couvreur
- Nominee Parallel Mothers · Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar
74th BAFTA Film Awards · 2021
- Winner Another Round
- Nominee Les Misérables · Ladj Ly
- Nominee Dear Comrades! · Andrei Konchalovsky, Alisher Usmanov
- Nominee Quo Vadis, Aida?
- Nominee Minari · Lee Isaac Chung, Christina Oh
73rd BAFTA Film Awards · 2020
- Winner Parasite
- Nominee Portrait of a Lady on Fire · Céline Sciamma, Bénédicte Couvreur
- Nominee The Farewell · Lulu Wang
- Nominee Pain and Glory · Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar
- Nominee For Sama · Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
71st BAFTA Film Awards · 2018
- Winner The Handmaiden · Park Chan-wook, Syd Lim
- Nominee Loveless · Andrey Zvyagintsev, Alexander Rodnyansky
- Nominee The Salesman · Asghar Farhadi
- Nominee Elle · Paul Verhoeven, Saïd Ben Saïd
- Nominee First They Killed My Father · Angelina Jolie, Rithy Panh
70th BAFTA Film Awards · 2017
- Winner Son of Saul · László Nemes
- Nominee Toni Erdmann · Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski
- Nominee Julieta · Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar
- Nominee Dheepan · Jacques Audiard
- Nominee Mustang · Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Charles Gillibert
69th BAFTA Film Awards · 2016
- Winner Wild Tales · Damián Szifron
- Nominee Timbuktu · Abderrahmane Sissako
- Nominee Theeb · Naji Abu Nowar
- Nominee Force Majeure · Ruben Östlund
- Nominee The Assassin · Hou Hsiao-hsien
68th BAFTA Film Awards · 2015
- Winner Ida · Paweł Pawlikowski, Eric Abraham
- Nominee Leviathan · Andrey Zvyagintsev, Alexander Rodnyansky
- Nominee The Lunchbox · Ritesh Batra, Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga
- Nominee Two Days, One Night · Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Nominee Trash · Stephen Daldry, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
67th BAFTA Film Awards · 2014
- Winner The Great Beauty
- Nominee The Act of Killing · Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen
- Nominee Wadjda · Haifaa al-Mansour
- Nominee Blue Is the Warmest Colour
- Nominee Metro Manila · Sean Ellis
66th BAFTA Film Awards · 2013
- Winner Amour · Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz
- Nominee The Intouchables · Éric Toledano
- Nominee Headhunters · Morten Tyldum
- Nominee The Hunt · Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen
- Nominee Rust and Bone · Jacques Audiard
65th BAFTA Film Awards · 2012
- Winner The Skin I Live In
- Nominee Potiche · François Ozon
- Nominee Incendies · Luc Déry, Kim McCraw, Denis Villeneuve
- Nominee Pina · Gian-Piero Ringel, Wim Wenders
- Nominee A Separation · Asghar Farhadi
64th BAFTA Film Awards · 2011
- Winner The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · Søren Stærmose, Niels Arden Oplev
- Nominee I Am Love · Luca Guadagnino, Marco Morabito
- Nominee Biutiful · Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik
- Nominee Of Gods and Men
- Nominee The Secret in Their Eyes · Juan José Campanella
63rd BAFTA Film Awards · 2010
- Winner A Prophet
- Nominee The White Ribbon · Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Ménégoz, Michael Haneke
- Nominee Let the Right One In · Tomas Alfredson
- Nominee Coco Before Chanel
- Nominee Broken Embraces · Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
62nd BAFTA Film Awards · 2009
- Winner I've Loved You So Long · Philippe Claudel
- Nominee Gomorrah
- Nominee Waltz with Bashir · Ari Folman
- Nominee The Baader Meinhof Complex · Bernd Eichinger, Uli Edel
- Nominee Persepolis · Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
61st BAFTA Film Awards · 2008
- Winner The Lives of Others · Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Nominee The Kite Runner
- Nominee The Diving Bell and the Butterfly · Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik, Julian Schnabel
- Nominee La Vie en Rose · Alain Goldman, Olivier Dahan
- Nominee Lust, Caution · Bill Kong, James Schamus, Ang Lee
60th BAFTA Film Awards · 2007
- Winner Pan's Labyrinth · Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro
- Nominee Black Book · San Fu Maltha, Paul Verhoeven
- Nominee Rang De Basanti · Ronnie Screwvala, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
- Nominee Volver · Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
- Nominee Apocalypto · Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey
59th BAFTA Film Awards · 2006
- Winner The Beat That My Heart Skipped · Jacques Audiard
- Nominee Tsotsi · Peter Fudakowski, Gavin Hood
- Nominee Joyeux Noël · Christian Carion
- Nominee Le Grand Voyage · Humbert Balsan, Ismaël Ferroukhi
- Nominee Kung Fu Hustle · Stephen Chow, Chui Po Chu, Jeffrey Lau
58th BAFTA Film Awards · 2005
- Winner The Motorcycle Diaries · Michael Nozik, Walter Salles
- Nominee The Chorus · Arthur Cohn, Jacques Perrin, Christophe Barratier
- Nominee A Very Long Engagement · Francis Boespflug, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Nominee House of Flying Daggers · Bill Kong, Zhang Yimou
- Nominee Bad Education · Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
57th BAFTA Film Awards · 2004
- Winner In This World · Andrew Eaton, Michael Winterbottom
- Nominee To Be and to Have · Nicolas Philibert
- Nominee Good Bye, Lenin! · Stefan Arndt, Wolfgang Becker
- Nominee The Triplets of Belleville · Didier Brunner, Sylvain Chomet
- Nominee Spirited Away · Toshio Suzuki, Hayao Miyazaki
- Nominee The Barbarian Invasions · Denise Robert, Daniel Louis, Denys Arcand
56th BAFTA Film Awards · 2003
- Winner Talk to Her · Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
- Nominee Y tu mamá también · Jorge Vergara, Alfonso Cuarón
- Nominee Devdas
- Nominee The Warrior · Asif Kapadia
- Nominee City of God · Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Fernando Meirelles
55th BAFTA Film Awards · 2002
- Winner Amores perros
- Nominee Amélie · Claudie Ossard, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Nominee Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado) · Arthur Cohn, Walter Salles
- Nominee Monsoon Wedding · Caroline Baron, Mira Nair
- Nominee The Piano Teacher · Veit Heiduschka, Michael Haneke
54th BAFTA Film Awards · 2001
- Winner Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · Bill Kong, Hsu Li-kong, Ang Lee
- Nominee Girl on the Bridge (La fille sur le pont) · Christian Fechner, Patrice Leconte
- Nominee Harry, He's Here to Help · Dominik Moll
- Nominee In the Mood for Love
- Nominee Malèna · Harvey Weinstein, Giuseppe Tornatore
53rd BAFTA Film Awards · 2000
- Winner All About My Mother · Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
- Nominee The Celebration (Festen) · Thomas Vinterberg
- Nominee Run Lola Run
- Nominee Buena Vista Social Club · Wim Wenders
52nd BAFTA Film Awards · 1999
- Winner Central Station
- Nominee On Guard · Philippe de Broca
- Nominee Live Flesh · Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
- Nominee Life Is Beautiful · Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi, Roberto Benigni
51st BAFTA Film Awards · 1998
- Winner The Apartment · Gilles Mimouni
- Nominee My Life in Pink (Ma vie en rose) · Alain Berliner
- Nominee Lucie Aubrac · Claude Berri
- Nominee The Tango Lesson · Christopher Sheppard, Sally Potter
50th BAFTA Film Awards · 1997
- Winner Ridicule · Philippe Carcassonne, Patrice Leconte
- Nominee Kolya
- Nominee Nelly and Mr. Arnaud · Alain Sarde, Claude Sautet
- Nominee Antonia's Line · Hans de Weers, Marleen Gorris
49th BAFTA Film Awards · 1996
- Winner Il Postino: The Postman · Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Gaetano Daniele, Michael Radford
- Nominee La Reine Margot · Patrice Chéreau
- Nominee Burnt by the Sun
- Nominee Les Misérables · Claude Lelouch
48th BAFTA Film Awards · 1995
- Winner To Live (Huozhe) · Chiu Fu-sheng, Zhang Yimou
- Nominee Eat Drink Man Woman · Hsu Li-kong, Ang Lee
- Nominee Belle Époque · Fernando Trueba
- Nominee Three Colours: Red · Marin Karmitz, Krzysztof Kieślowski
47th BAFTA Film Awards · 1994
- Winner Farewell My Concubine · Hsu Feng, Chen Kaige
- Nominee A Heart in Winter · Jean-Louis Livi, Philippe Carcassonne, Claude Sautet
- Nominee Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate) · Alfonso Arau
- Nominee Indochine
46th BAFTA Film Awards · 1993
- Winner Raise the Red Lantern · Chiu Fu-sheng, Zhang Yimou
- Nominee Europa Europa · Artur Brauner, Margaret Ménégoz, Agnieszka Holland
- Nominee Les Amants du Pont-Neuf · Christian Fechner, Leos Carax
- Nominee Delicatessen · Claudie Ossard, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
45th BAFTA Film Awards · 1992
- Winner The Nasty Girl · Michael Verhoeven
- Nominee Cyrano de Bergerac · Michel Seydoux, Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- Nominee Toto the Hero · Jaco Van Dormael
- Nominee The Hairdresser's Husband · Patrice Leconte
44th BAFTA Film Awards · 1991
- Winner Cinema Paradiso · Franco Cristaldi, Giuseppe Tornatore
- Nominee Jesus of Montreal · Roger Frappier, Denys Arcand
- Nominee May Fools · Louis Malle
- Nominee Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed · Philippe Carcassonne, Coline Serreau
43rd BAFTA Film Awards · 1990
- Winner Life and Nothing But · Bertrand Tavernier
- Nominee Salaam Bombay! · Mira Nair
- Nominee Pelle the Conqueror · Per Holst, Bille August
- Nominee Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown · Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
42nd BAFTA Film Awards · 1989
- Winner Babette's Feast · Just Betzer, Bo Christensen, Gabriel Axel
- Nominee Au revoir les enfants · Louis Malle
- Nominee Wings of Desire · Wim Wenders, Anatole Dauman
- Nominee Dark Eyes · Nikita Mikhalkov
41st BAFTA Film Awards · 1988
- Winner The Sacrifice · Andrei Tarkovsky
- Nominee Jean de Florette · Claude Berri
- Nominee Manon des Sources · Claude Berri
- Nominee My Life as a Dog · Waldemar Bergendahl, Lasse Hallström
40th BAFTA Film Awards · 1987
- Winner Ran · Serge Silberman, Akira Kurosawa
- Nominee Ginger and Fred (Ginger e Fred) · Alberto Grimaldi, Federico Fellini
- Nominee Otello · Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus, Franco Zeffirelli
- Nominee Betty Blue · Jean-Jacques Beineix
39th BAFTA Film Awards · 1986
- Winner Colonel Redl · Manfred Durniok, Istvan Szabo
- Nominee Carmen
- Nominee Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart · Wayne Wang
- Nominee Subway · Luc Besson
38th BAFTA Film Awards · 1985
- Winner Carmen
- Nominee Swann in Love · Volker Schlöndorff
- Nominee The Return of Martin Guerre
- Nominee A Sunday in the Country · Bertrand Tavernier
37th BAFTA Film Awards · 1984
- Winner Danton
- Nominee Fanny and Alexander · Jörn Donner, Ingmar Bergman
- Nominee Confidentially Yours · François Truffaut
- Nominee La Traviata
36th BAFTA Film Awards · 1983
- Winner Christ Stopped at Eboli
- Nominee Fitzcarraldo · Werner Herzog
- Nominee Diva · Jean-Jacques Beineix
- Nominee Das Boot · Wolfgang Petersen